00:00Dating today is all about the swipe. I have personally seen some dating
00:04profiles that would make you want to swipe left, but today I'm gonna change
00:08that. I'm gonna give a total digital dating makeover. Time to meddle.
00:17I would swipe left. Swipe left. This guy's really cute but I'm gonna swipe left.
00:22Before I get into it, I want you to walk me through your profile. Cool, okay. So
00:27this is actually a pretty recent photo of me. It's a picture that my friend took
00:31at an izakaya in Tokyo. It's just heaven. He's holding a humongous beer and he has
00:37an Apple watch. Ooh, tech savvy. It's a good start. I always suggest a great
00:42straight-to-camera single shot for the first picture. So positive. Cool, awesome,
00:46awesome. This is me and my friend took this at a party somewhere in Brooklyn and
00:50then this is just me kind of goofing around with a funny umbrella. This
00:53picture's a little too sassy. He's giving a little bit of, like, a little bit of
00:57attitude. He's giving like a little bit of like a, like a... And then that's it. I just
01:01have three pictures. Can you just read me your bio? What are you putting out into the
01:05world? Brooklyn via Chicago, cats, hip-hop, etc. He's got some potential but the
01:10bio is not working for him. Cats, see I feel like if you put cats in your profile
01:15then you just will repel on the dog ladies and I don't like cats. That was his bio?
01:19Brooklyn via Chicago, cats, hip-hop, etc. What is that? I think the biggest
01:25downfall in your profile is lack of images and lack of information. So let's
01:30add some more photos. Okay. I'm gonna steer now. You're gonna hand me your phone. Okay.
01:33And we're gonna make some edits. I love this. This is a travel photo. Yeah. So we
01:38have a shot of Carlo traveling. He's got his hand coffee in hand. He's in Tokyo. From a vending machine
01:44next to
01:44the vending machine I got it from. Yeah. That's awesome. So is this you? That is me.
01:49I'm iffy on using that. Yeah. Because it looks kind of pretentious. I think it's a
01:54plus. It shows your full body. It's also gonna be a little further into it so we
01:58can actually see what you look like first. So let's go through your order.
02:15But now we have to move to the bio. Ooh. All right. Let's do this. I think we see
02:21who you are in the images but you need to also tell who you are. I spoke internally
02:27to one of your good friends Zoe who says she's worked with you for a couple years.
02:31Yeah. So Carlo's really brilliant so I want his bio to like say something that
02:36makes him seem more witty and smart the way he actually is. So in addition to Zoe,
02:41we have good friends saying he's smart and has a great job and has a lot of
02:45friends and does all this stuff. We have the other side of people who didn't know
02:49you who were judging you and myself being like tell us what etc is. We want to know
02:52more. Right. Right. So I love Brooklyn via Chicago. What else do you like to do?
02:59I'm a big music festival person especially in the summer. In the winter I'm kind of
03:02more of a homebody like marathoning you know TV shows and reading a lot. Let's do
03:06winter colon obviously not Netflix and chill but we can do winter colon
03:10TV marathons and what's your favorite food? Let's just say chicken and waffles.
03:16This is so good. Yeah. This is after Brooklyn via Chicago. So let's do winter colon
03:20Netflix comma chicken and waffles. Now we know what you like to do in the cold
03:24season. Okay. And then enter of summer's music festivals and bar hopping. But I
03:29think this is good. It shows your location, shows you came from somewhere else. We
03:32found a creative way to show what you actually really enjoy doing. Yeah I like
03:37this. This is so much better than anything I could have thought of myself. I'm so
03:40much more excited to use this app now. You have to keep me posted. Absolutely Lauren.
03:44Okay thank you. So the bio is a lot better. It's a little quirky. I'm intrigued as to what these
03:50things mean. The snapchat photos like kind of silly but way better than the
03:55umbrella pic. Alright I like the pictures. He travels. He loves snapchat. Good
04:01flower crown filter. I'd swipe right. For sure. This is way better. He's cute and there
04:07are some interesting things in his bio so I would swipe right. Yeah I think that
04:11this is a much better representation of Carla than the previous profile. He comes
04:15off smarter, funnier, more photos that kind of represent what he looks like and
04:20the traveling is definitely a big part of his personality so I think that it fits him
04:23much better. So that was fun. Who's up next? Until then click here to watch a ladies talk
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04:35to work.
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